At Cincinnati State, Wilmington will offer business classes taught by Wilmington professors.

Wilmington will also kick off the same program this fall at Chatfield College, a private two-year Catholic college in St. Martin, Ohio.

"We have two missions at Cincinnati State," Posey said

"To help students complete a technical program to move onto a career and to facilitate transfer programs."

Laura Norman, a pre-business graduate of Cincinnati State, said the school's articulation agreement with NKU saves her both time and money because it preserves the credits she has earned.

"I took a year's worth of classes Bradley University (in Peoria, Ill.) before I transferred to Cincinnati State," said Norman, 24. "It showed me that anytime you transfer where there is not already an agreement already, you will truly lose a lot of your credit hours and stay in school a lot longer."

When Norman graduated from Cincinnati State in 2000, she was able to finish a bachelor's degree in marketing at NKU, thanks in part to credits she successfully transferred.

"When I transferred to NKU, a lot of the classes lined up to easily transfer," she said.